Laška
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Laška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 88K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,535 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. In Hungarian laska also denotes a type of mushroom, and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from this sense.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laška counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,535 | 1 in 11K | 1.8K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,451 | 1 in 229K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 358 | 1 in 591K | 358 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 62 | 1 in 173K | 62 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 49 | 1 in 208K | 49 | — | — |
3,535 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Laška is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, nonstandard form of lyžka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 62 | #24,970 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laška mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Laška have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Laška, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Laška most common?
- Laška is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laška?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,535 people named Laška in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la%C5%A1kaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Laška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.